Don't cry because its over.

Stephen Colbert put on an emotional and existential final episode of “The Late Show” Thursday night, thanking his staff, studio audience and viewers for eleven years of laughs.

In the two-minute-long message to the audience, Colbert described his show as a “Joy Machine” as he thanked the audience both in the studio and those watching at home.

Stephen Colbert avoided politics during his star-studded supersized series finale of "The Late Show," bowing out after 11 ...

When Stephen Colbert stepped behind the desk of CBS' "The Late Show" on Sept. 8, 2015, viewers didn't entirely know what to expect. Colbert had spent the previous 10 years playing a bombastic Bill ...